If you participated in the DevOps’ish Summer 2018 Survey, thank you. It was vital to make sure I was putting bits in the right places. The aggregate results are available. A few changes you might have noticed last week; Events and Jobs now live as pages on the website. While they add value, they also added unnecessary weight to every newsletter. The benefit of them being pages now either of them can be updated as new listings come in. The offer still stands for readers getting their listings on the site for free.

The next cut was the photo header. I thought it was a beautiful thing to add back in 2016. It humanized the newsletter in a way words couldn’t. But, the metrics have spoken. With 62 respondents (out of 90) rating it a 5 or less, it was probably past time to pull it. The introduction is staying. Sorry (not sorry) for those of you who think it’s too political at times. But, DevOps is about breaking down silos in organizations and I’m about breaking them down in life. Aside from that, not much else is changing.

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The Importance of Psychological Safety: I have mentioned this a few times in various talks, on social media, and in this newsletter; the importance of psychological safety in creating effective teams is often overlooked.

CNCF Ambassadors: A special thanks to Justin Garrison for putting together this list of CNCF Ambassadors on Twitter. Follow ‘em all!

Prometheus Graduates Within CNCF: Prometheus graduates within the CNCF. Recall DevOps’ish 066 when Kubernetes graduated, “[Graduation] is meant to be a stamp from the Technical Oversight Committee and the CNCF of what is a sustainable, production ready and mature open source project (i.e., you can bet your business on it).”

MailChimp bans Alex Jones for hateful conduct: DevOps’ish uses MailChimp and will continue to do so. This Alex Jones nonsense is NOT a free speech issue. These platforms are not run by the US government. They can silence whomever they wish for the health of their platforms.

Cultural Bias in Artificial Intelligence: “Some of the things we’ve seen are misclassification or misidentification. For example, Microsoft’s Tay AI, a bot that was released on Twitter was famously easily influenced by people talking to it in racist and sexist ways, and it reflected that.”

ACM Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct: “Computing professionals’ actions change the world. To act responsibly, they should reflect upon the wider impacts of their work, consistently supporting the public good. The ACM Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct (“the Code”) expresses the conscience of the profession.”

A Detailed Look at RFC 8446 (a.k.a. TLS 1.3): “ The latest version of TLS, TLS 1.3 (RFC 8446) was published today. It is the first major overhaul of the protocol, bringing significant security and performance improvements.”

GLB: GitHub’s open source load balancer: “GLB Director does not replace services like haproxy and nginx, but rather is a layer in front of these services (or any TCP service) that allows them to scale across multiple physical machines without requiring each machine to have unique IP addresses.”

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I'm Chris Short, 20+ veteran of the IT industry and 11 year veteran of the US Air Force. I help people and companies embrace DevOps practices and tools through writing and public speaking. I am a staunch advocate for transparency and open source solutions to problems.